The significant values of work in the armenian community in France We shall endeavour, in this article, to show why the transmission of a restricting historical reality has overdetermined some attitudes towards work among the stateless Armenians in France in the years 1922/1923. The point is not to analyse that behaviour in a comprehensive way but to find some means of interrogating a problematic issue of identity rehabilitation. Why did work at first constitute the main priority in order to preserve the cultural values characteristic of a tradition ? In the same way, what part does the myth of success in reference to an ethnic identity shattered in its place of origin play in those strategies of economic integration ? The breaking up of...